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Washington Square by Henry James
$6.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
When timid and plain Catherine Sloper acquires a dashing and determined suitor, her father, convinced that the young man is nothing more than a fortune-hunter, decides to put a stop to their romance. This novel interweaves the public and private faces of nineteenth-century New York society; it is also a ...Show more
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Modern Classics) by Shirley Jackson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Shirley Jackson's beloved gothic tale of a peculiar girl named Merricat and her family's dark secret Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle th ...Show more
We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live : Collected Nonfiction by Joan Didion
$60.00 AUD
Category: Essays and Anthologies | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
Joan Didion's incomparable and distinctive essays and journalism are admired for their acute, incisive observations and their spare, elegant style. Now the seven books of nonfiction that appeared between 1968 and 2003 have been brought together into one thrilling collection. "Slouching Towards Bethlehem ...Show more
We the Living by Ayn Rand
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
We the Living portrays the impact of the Russian Revolution on three people who demand the right to live their own lives. At its center is a girl whose passionate love is her fortress against the cruelty and oppression of a totalitarian state. Of this book, Ayn Rand said, "it is as near to an autobiogr ...Show more
Wealth Of Nations by Adam Smith
$13.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
While it has been pointed to time and again by governments and pundits promoting laissez-faire economics, the Wealth of Nations actually shows that Adam Smith viewed capitalism with a deep suspicion, and tempered his celebration of a self-regulating market with a darker vision of the dehumanizing potent ...Show more
Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
$16.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
This edition contains generous selections from all five volumes of The Wealth of Nations, and places Smith's inquiry into its historical, intellectual, and cultural context.
What Katy Did by Susan Coolidge
$11.99 AUD
Category: Chapter Books | Series: Dover Children's Evergreen Classics Ser.
What Katy Did Susan CoolidgeWhat Katy Did follows the adventures of a twelve-year-old American girl and her family who live in the fictional lakeside Ohio town of Burnet.
Whatever by Michel Houellebecq; Paul Hammond (Translator); Toby Litt (Introduction by)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Serpent's Tail Classics Ser.
"Houellebecq captures precisely the cynical disillusionment of disaffected youth."--Booklist "This boy needs serious therapy. He may be beyond help."--The Washington Post Just thirty, with a well-paid job, depression and no love life, the narrator and anti-hero par excellence of this grim, funny, and ...Show more
Where the Stress Falls by Susan Sontag
$26.95 AUD
Category: Essays and Anthologies | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"Where the Stress Falls" is divided into three sections: the first, 'Reading', includes ardent pieces on writers from Sontag's own private canon - Machado de Assis, Barthes, W. G. Sebald, Borges, Tsvetaeva and Elizabeth Hardwick. In the second, 'Seeing', she shares her passions for film, dance, photogra ...Show more
Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame, The National Gallery
$24.99 AUD
Category: Children's Classics and Poetry | Series: The\National Gallery Masterpiece Classics Ser.
Part of a new series of beloved children's classics featuring unique covers of famous artwork. Join Ratty, Mole, Badger and Toad in their classic riverbank adventure. Join Ratty, Mole, Badger and Toad in their classic riverbank adventure. Produced in association with the UK's National Gallery, this hand ...Show more
Wind in the Willows (Bath Treasury) by Kenneth Grahame
$19.99 AUD
Category: Chapter Books | Series: Bath Classics Ser.
The Wind in the Willows is a classic of children's literature, first published in 1908. Alternately slow moving and fast paced, it focuses on four anthropomorphised animal characters in a pastoral version of England. The novel is notable for its mixture of mysticism, adventure, morality, and camaraderie ...Show more
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
$14.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
...there is within every human being a deep well of thinking over which a heavy iron lid is kept clamped. Winesburg, Ohio (1919) is Sherwood Anderson's masterpiece, a cycle of short stories concerning life in a small Ohio town at the end of the nineteenth century. At the centre is George Willard, a youn ...Show more